iconicity

Noun

Meaning

iconicity (countable and uncountable, plural iconicities)

the state of being iconic (in all meanings)

Examples

It has been found that when children acquire the pronoun "you", the iconicity of the point (at the child) is often confused, being treated more like a name. citation This is a similar finding to research in oral languages on pronoun acquisition. Source: Internet

Even so, in ASL iconicity plays a significant role; a high percentage of signs resemble their referents in some way. Source: Internet

Frishberg (1975) wrote a very influential paper addressing the relationship between arbitrariness and iconicity in ASL. Source: Internet

As a result, iconicity as a whole was largely neglected in research of sign languages. Source: Internet

It has also been found that iconicity of signs does not affect immediate memory and recall; less iconic signs are remembered just as well as highly iconic signs. Source: Internet

She concluded that though originally present in many signs, iconicity is degraded over time through the application of grammatical processes. Source: Internet

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